16 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
at $1,279.79 were given to the library by various corres- 
pondents,— in large part in exchange for the Garden 
publications. 
The index has been increased by the addition of 16,468 
cards, of which 7,040 were purchased and the remainder 
written by Garden employees. <A large number of these 
cards refer to published mention of plants occurring in the 
State of Missouri; but this work of indexing the State 
flora is yet far from complete. 
As now constituted, the library consists of :— 
POMD obese sv 60nscccrevaces 18,060 
Books (general) .......+ see. 12,429 
valued at... 0sss-vevees $43,368 381 
Books (Sturtevant Prelinnean 
Library).... cesses cececseees 463 OL ccncesenwes 2,315 00 
MS. volumes (Engelmann).... 60 66 pechecupanewe 600 00 
ae tf (Roetter)........ 1 EL MPILY vr ure E 100 00 
Tombsiis carvevs 91018 98M Quire $46,383 31 
ROUGE CAGES cP ee i 182,437 Ar TER cy feo 1,824 37 
SORE VAIUATION, «0... cess escent ccccaccesccesses $48,207 68 
In the early part of the year, by direction of the Board, 
steps were taken toward publishing a catalogue of the 
library, and for this purpose the books and pamphlets have 
been re-catalogued directly from the shelves. It is hoped 
that the catalogue, which is estimated to contain not far 
from 35,000 entries, may be printed in the course of 1898. 
The large additions to both herbarium and library have 
necessitated the removal of a portion of each from the her- 
barium building to the old museum building, in which some 
550 running feet of shelving is now occupied by books ; 
and there is no doubt that one of the most pressing needs 
of the early future is the provision of additional and better 
planned quarters for the library and herbarium. The gen- 
eral plans for the development of the Garden, adopted in 
1896, provide for the extension of the present herbarium 
